While you probably won't see photos like this on the Charlottesville Police Department’s social media pages, this is what residents of Westhaven woke up to Tuesday morning last week — an armored vehicle with a heavily armed officer in the turret being used to execute multiple search warrants in connection with shooting investigations.
Both CBS19 and 29News reported on the June 17 joint operation between the Charlottesville and Albemarle County police departments, but those reports didn’t include images of an armored vehicle.
The above image was posted by activist Tanesha Hudson, who expressed concern on social media about the militarized approach to executing s…
